By
Gifty Amofa, GNA
Accra, Oct. 18, GNA
– The third batch of crime officers’ training has ended in Accra with a call on
them to bring about transformation in the Criminal Investigation Department
(CID) of the Ghana Police Service.
Assistant
Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mr George Tweneboah, the Deputy Director General
of CID, said they should retain the knowledge gained so that it would be
applied to bring about the expected change.
There is therefore
the need to share the knowledge gained during the two-week period to improve
upon the work of the department.
ACP Tweneboah was
addressing 56 participants drawn from across the country made up of crime
officers, representatives from the ballistic unit, pathologists, pharmacists,
among others.
He charged the crime
officers course/2019 participants to make the visible change that the tax payer
would be proud of.
The Deputy Director
General said by the close of the year, about 120 crime officers would have
benefitted from the training.
Superintendent of
Police, Ms Grace Ansah-Akrofi, Commandant of the Detective Training Academy
(DTA), said the training had given participants the requisite specialization to
supervise their men to undertake investigations.
She added that the
DTA had shown capability to build the capacity of personnel, resource and
position them to deliver.
Ms Ansah-Akrofi said
while some of the participants were serving officers, others were yet to be
posted.
Superintendent Dr
Alex Ackon in his valedictory message thanked police management for giving them
the rudiments of detective training, which would enhance professionalism and
effectiveness in the course of their duties.
He said topics such
as Interpol Tools, Intelligence Management, Expectation of the Attorney General
for investigations, Police Ethics and Procedures as well as organised crime,
were timely as crime had become sophisticated.
The Crime Officers
Course/2019, later donated an ultra-modern photo copier machine to the DTA. Â
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